On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 18:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Is this *definitely* a disk error, or could it be related to > PostgreSQL > > itself? > > "Input/output error" is pretty much always indicative of a hardware > problem. If it's always associated with attempts to access a specific > disk block then it's definitely a bad-sector error. T Thanks. I just wanted to make sure that I did not hit a PostgreSQL bug. > There might be more details in the kernel log. That is another part that confuses me. cciss driver *may* report false positives under some circumstances, per a bug report that I saw at bugzilla (I cannot remember bz id right now). That's why I asked to list, too. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer PostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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